How To Install icewm on Debian 12

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm on Debian 12.

What is icewm

icewm is:

IceWm is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. It tries to take the best features of the above systems. Additional features include multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock.

There are three methods to install icewm on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install icewm Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install icewm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icewm

Install icewm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install icewm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install icewm

Install icewm Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install icewm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icewm

How To Uninstall icewm on Debian 12

To uninstall only the icewm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icewm

Uninstall icewm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icewm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icewm

Remove icewm Configurations and Data

To remove icewm configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icewm

Remove icewm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove icewm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icewm

Dependencies

icewm have the following dependencies:

• icewm-common
• libao4
• libc6
• libfribidi0
• libgcc-s1
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libice6

References

• icewm website
• icewm on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.